Superintendent

Formal or Informal Assignment: Since the 1C5 Career Field Manager is not releasing any MSgts from the career field this year you should continue to pursue your near-term goal of becoming the AWDC Superintendent at Nellis AFB. You are an AWDC graduate and your time in the control and reporting center over these past few years has armed you with the knowledge, experience, and credibility to successfully lead the course to bigger and better things. This is a critical time for the AWDC because the…

I was lucky. A few months after I was given my first Division to lead, I was accepted in Superintendents’ Leadership Program (SLP) Batch 2. And years before that, I had worked with bosses who had given me opportunities to experience things that worked well and decisions that failed. So I had some mental models to start with and some training about leadership and management. More or less, I have a schema and theories and principles that intuitively guided me how to begin managing and leading…

Dear Global Teacher Prize Academy Committee, I am very pleased to recommend Dr. Katherine Heavers for the Global Teacher Prize. I was a 12th grade student in her class from 2014 to 2015. The course was called Human Anatomy and Physiology, but that name does not do everything she taught me justice. In her classes, she sets aside five to ten minutes for students in one of the most competitive N.J. schools to relax with yoga techniques. Reinvigorated, students listen to a quote from Dr. Heavers and…

establishing an organization to distribute goods to them, and nursing those who were wounded. During the Civil War, she was superintendent of nurses in Major General Butlers’ command. She also helped locate soldiers missing in action, and notified families of their statuses. Several years after the war, she founded American Red Cross. When? Barton served as the superintendent of nurses in the Civil War for all of its duration, though founded American Red Cross in 1881. Where? She was…

disability related. To add to that, they court offered that the state should be required to provide services to eligible students if the schools and school district did not. Upon appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. Honig, the superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, took the case to the Supreme Court, stating that the lower courts did not take into account previous rulings that justified their actions. The item that made them exempt of the law, was the…

How should Principal Ingraham proceed? As the Superintendent, I would encourage Mr. Ingraham to go have another conversation with Ms. Schaffer in regards to the hypothetical question that she asked. During this conversation he needs to ask some clarifying questions and try to get as much information as possible so that he can handle the situation. Mr. Ingraham needs to remind Ms. Schaffer that as an educator she is a mandated reporter and if she knows of something that students are doing that…

As members it is imperative for you to know why your role is so significant. As our district continues to welcome new diverse families into our home and school communities, it is important to work towards engaging these families in our schools because it is only when all community members are invested in how our schools operate and are involved in our students’ education that the productivity of our district can be at its highest level. One key issue for the team to consider when developing…

According to Daniel King, Superintendent of PSJA Independent School District, the amount of money spent on textbooks each year ranges from about seventy to ninety billion dollars, however they want to see that amount of money being spent on devices instead (Source H), due to the reason…

With the invention of the printing press, the demand for books skyrocketed, and led to the creation of pulp magazines. To some these magazines were not “serious” literature standard, as often times they were printed on low quality paper, sold cheaply (dime magazines), and in locations like drug stores and train stations. B. Psychoanalytic critics were particularly interested in the horror genre for its uncanny characteristics. The story deals in the realm of the id and ego battling it out.…

Association of African-American Churches Pray for Rev. Kelvin L. Walker, president, as he ministers to pastors and churches in the United States. Pray that the association can design better ways of communication and connection for African-Americans in the C&MA. Central District Pray for the church planters basic training at Beulah Beach, November 3–6. May they learn new ways to strategize and reach their communities for Christ. Children’s Disciplemaking Pray for the Children’s Disciplemaking…